SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian prison siege ended on Monday after a group of inmates agreed to release a guard they had held for two days in return for a delivery of pizzas, prison officials said.
A group of up to 20 inmates seized control of the reception area of the maximum security Risdon Prison in Hobart, capital of the southern island state of Tasmania, on Saturday, demanding better treatment and improvements to the jail.
The siege was resolved in far less dramatic circumstances.
"Our staff member was negotiated out with the delivery of 15 pizzas," Graeme Barber, Tasmania's director of prisons, told reporters.
The prisoners had earlier made a list of 24 demands. But none was so pressing as the need for a take-out meal and the guard was released unharmed not long after midnight.
About 20 prisoners, some being held as hostages, were involved in the siege. The last of the hostages was released by their pizza-filled captors early on Monday.
Risdon Prison holds Martin Bryant, who was convicted of Australia's worst massacre of modern times when he shot dead 35 people in 1996 in the Tasmanian tourist town and former penal colony of Port Arthur.
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Those must have been criminally good pizzas.
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The pizzas sent in were from Papa Johns: a UN human rights tribunal will convieve next week to investigate....
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Papa Johns around here is quite good. Certainly, as a take away, it's up there with Domino's.
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Really not high praise. That's like saying "As far as greasy burgers go, Checkers is right up there with McDondalds."
You'll almost always get better pizza from a local mom-n-pop run place than a chain.
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All the one's like that around here are primarily indian take-aways, with pizza as an extra. And they're not very good at all.
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So can you get pizza delivered in London, now? I've only got that bit in one of the Dirk Gently books to go on as proof that you can't, or couldn't, but still.
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I made that same point once. Someone thought I was crazy. Then I explained the source of my information, and I was ridiculed for relying upon a (now) seventeen-year-old work of fiction for my data. I was sad.
And... "Pizza Shack"? How is that not a parody?
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quote:Originally posted by PsyLiam: All the one's like that around here are primarily indian take-aways, with pizza as an extra. And they're not very good at all.
Okay, that would force me to go to a chain pizzaria.
Strage that the US should have such a greatyer percentage of italians to make good pizza than london (what with your closer proximity to Italy and all).
I may order a pizza now- peperoni, mushrooms, extra cheese and green olives sound good....
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There is a fair chance that Papa John's over here tastes better/different than it does in the US. It's just a name, after all. (I remember when I went into a McDonald's in the US. Granted, you don't expect the highest quality food from MaccyD's, but it was almost unedible. So I now base my experience of all American McDonalds on that one singular restaurant).
I also go for Papa John's because they have an "any pizza, any size" offer if you collect it. And they are less than two minutes walk from my house.
I think that was me that ridiculed Tim for believing the non-pizza delivery thing.
Why do people think that I suddenly live in London?
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